Parliamentary elections will be held in Moldova on Sunday 28 September 2025. Results of the poll conducted on the most popular news portal of the Republic of Moldova Like most of the previous elections in Moldova, these elections are geopolitical. The confrontation between the two camps of pro-European and pro-Russian has been going on for a year now, tearing the small country of two million people into two
We cordially invite you to the press conference and presentation of the new IGFM documentation: "The horror in my house: Systematic human rights violations in the occupied territories of Ukraine" Date: 24 September 2025, 11:00 a.m. Location: Zoom meeting Dear colleagues, dear interested parties and friends, Since the Russian full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, Ukrainians living in the occupied territories have been subjected to systematic oppression, persecution and torture
Please make arrangements for Alex Lipzer to be released to attend the ceremony to say goodbye to his mum. Elena Lipzer. Photo: social media Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Nikolayevna Moskalova Chairman of the Vladimir Regional Court Sergey Konstantinovich Shishkin On 5 September, Elena Liptser, a well-known Moscow lawyer and friend of Novaya Gazeta, passed away after a long illness. Lena was only 58 years old,
"Sakharov Institute" and the movement named after him are recognised as "undesirable" Information about this appeared on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice; the decision on the listing was dated 22 July. It is noteworthy that the Sakharov Institute, at least, has a legal entity in Europe, while the movement "Peace. Progress. Human Rights" is a completely informal structure, a community of people with no legal entities, no
St Petersburg activist Dasha Kozyreva began to be persecuted almost from the very beginning of the war, in the spring of 2022, when she was just 17 years old. Fragments of a letter from 19-year-old Dasha Kozyreva, convicted for poetry by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko Then the girl wrote on a city installation dedicated to the ‘twinning’ of St. Petersburg and occupied Mariupol the phrase "Murderers, you bombed
"You can't shut everyone up. If that puts me in prison, then so be it. It's much easier for my voice to be heard all the stronger," said Alexander Skobow on 21 March 2025 Alexander Skobov in court in a security cell - called an aquarium. Photo: Dmitry Zyganov When he was sentenced by the First Western Military Court in Moscow to 16 years in prison for justifying
German MP Michael Gahler addressed the European Parliament MP Michael Gahler in the European Parliament: The fate of Ukrainians under Russian control is appalling. In the photo on the right, Konstantin Zinovkin He outlined the problem of Ukrainians being held captive by the Russian Federation. Here is an excerpt from his speech: If we look at the physical condition of most of the released Ukrainians during the prisoner
On 4 June, we remember the children who were killed by the Russian war of aggression The photo was taken with artificial intelligence. We do not know how many there really are - mass graves near Mariupol and in occupied cities remain undiscovered. Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, at least 631 children have been killed and over 1,975 injured - many of
Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev will hold the second part of the seminar ‘The Role of Human Rights in the Modern World’ 6 June, Friday, 18:30 - 20:00 📍Espace Libertés | Reforum Space Paris The role of human rights in the modern world. Part 2 Seminar by Lev Ponomarev ‘... We begin our seminar in the days when the world is frozen in uncertainty - whether the fratricidal war
Preschool children dressed in Soviet military uniforms with flags for Victory Day. Photo from the propaganda telegram of the LuhanMedia channel Russia's militarisation of Ukrainian children is a crime against their identity The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) strongly condemns the forced militarisation and ideological indoctrination of Ukrainian preschool children in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. Current research shows that even small children in the occupied parts